tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24917443.post5828632342468139697..comments2023-05-07T02:34:30.801-07:00Comments on One Quaker Take: I Can Still Do Something WrongTmothy Travishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02788311873771605510noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24917443.post-79972917948416658312012-10-08T06:37:16.845-07:002012-10-08T06:37:16.845-07:00Having clerked a share of monthly and quarterly me...Having clerked a share of monthly and quarterly meetings, I love your phrase, "Friends who have gone off into the weeds." It is often rough, trying to keep our business on focus. Cuban Friends were quite amused when some of us were trying to translate "herd cats" and "transport a wheelbarrow of frogs" as descriptions of our decision-making process.<br />Glad you realize, too, swans take time. Clerks can be guided by clerks. The first time I sat as clerk of our quarter, I looked out across the room and realized we had a former clerk of yearly meeting, as well as former clerks of the quarter and active monthly meeting clerks. I realized I was set -- they would guide me. (A little more visibly, that is, than the Holy Spirit.)<br />Remember, too, every business session will be different. The ones you expect to be most difficult often aren't, while the seemingly easy ones can trip over something unexpected. <br />Glad you got your thoughts down on paper while they're still fresh. Clerking is always an experience.<br />Jnana Hodsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01640392151468602058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24917443.post-14482739872346807092012-08-09T22:36:03.336-07:002012-08-09T22:36:03.336-07:00Hello Timothy Travis, Read your review of Guiton&#...Hello Timothy Travis, Read your review of Guiton's book in the recent July/August WESTERN FRIEND and found your blog address in same. Great commentary, will be following your blog and catch up on past "issues." Want to recommend another contemporary deep Quaker thinker, Jim Corbett, one of the co-founders of the Sanctuary Movement in the early 1980s (he always wrote those two words in lower case) to shelter Central American refugees from Yankee persecution both in their homelands and here, once they crossed the border. His writing is quite remarkable and I do highly recommend both his books, GOATWALKING and "SANCTUARY FOR ALL LIFE". The first is out of print but can be found used on Amazon. The second you can order new from MadDog Press, I believe, for about $15.00. Corbett is one of the finest contemporary spiritual thinkers of true originality I have run across.<br />John Rodgers jocartero@yahoo.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com